newsletter€¦ · newsletter editor anne leggett, [email protected] newsletter team margaret bayer,...

PRESIDENTrsquoS REPORT

IN THIS ISSUE

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The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is

bull to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences and

bull to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences

VOLUME 50 NO 5 bull SEPTEMBERndashOCTOBER 2020

Newsletter On June 1 2020 following the horrific murder of George Floyd by the po-lice the AWM expressed its solidarity with NAM and those protesting systemic racism Three days later the AWM announced the AMS-AWM Noether Lecturer for the 2021 JMM Andrea Bertozzi had been selected back in November 2019 for her prolific and profound work and her contributions as a mentor Among the broad range of applied mathematics she has done is work with the LAPD in particular on predictive policing Immediately after the e-communication came out announcing the lecturer the AWM inboxes began filling up with well-crafted commentary on the pain that has been caused by algorithmic policing the insensi-tivity of the AWMrsquos timing and questioning the choice of speaker We swiftly initi-ated multiple conversations with various members of AWM AMS and the speaker A few days later we released another statement

The Association for Women in Mathematics the American Mathematical Society and Andrea Bertozzi announce the cancellation of her Noether Lecture at the 2021 JMM This decision comes as many of this nation rise up in protest over racial discrimination and brutality by police We at AWM apologize for our insensitivity in the timing of the announcement last week of the lecturer and the pain it caused We recognize that we have ongoing work to do in order to be an organiza-tion that fights for social justice and we are committed to doing what is necessary

This prompted another email deluge Some writers were taken aback at the cancellation and felt it had come without any explanation Others felt that the cancellation was an insufficient response to a deeply problematic action Mathematicians are just waking up to the ethical implications of our research and our teaching We are used to theorems and algorithms making sense of our world and non-mathematicians are even more likely to believe something because ldquoitrsquos mathrdquo We all know that if one starts with bad assumptions then logic will only lead us to bad conclusions yet we have often held ourselves and our work apart from the world In fact our work is deeply embedded in human concerns and has real implications In particular as Cathy OrsquoNeil pointed out with many examples in her 2016 book Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy algorithms based on biased data will lead to more bias Moreover the math can act to both magnify and obscure the underlying

3 Letters to the Editor

6 Presidentsrsquo Reflections

9 Book Review

12 Education Column

14 Media Column 17 2020 SIAMCAIMS Workshop

20 Announcements

inequity These considerations must be a priority in our analyses of work There will be no 2021 Noether Lecture and no one listed as the lecturer In place of the lecture the AWM is planning an event designed to educate the community about issues of racial bias andor ethics in research and the role of bias in algorithms and other analytical tools The task force for developing this event includes some members of AWM who were most vocal about our missteps including authors of a letter from some AWM student chapter members request-ing stronger action from the AWM [see pp 4ndash5 for the letter] The members of the task force are not all women of color While we wish to center BIPOC in our event we cannot place this additional burden entirely with them We cannot change the past but we can and should take ownership of our actions that (even unintentionally) perpetuated bias or caused pain and con-fusion For us as mathematicians it means recognizing that even our most theoreti-cal work can be used for a variety of purposes and we must acknowledge our part of the capitalistmilitarypatriarchalsystemically racist world in which we work We must teach our students and remind our colleagues that there are moral and ethical implications embedded in mathematics that it is our responsibility to understand themmdashand alter what is not right The AWM must take ownership too At its bi-monthly meeting in July the Executive Committee continued its discussion of what it means and what it will take to make the AWM an actively anti-racist organization This discussion has been ongoing for at least two years In 2018 past president Ami Radunskaya charged a task force to consider how the AWM could better promote inclusivity in our organization and beyond A copy of the report is here httpsawm-mathorgwp-contentuploads202007Diversity-and-Inclusion-Task-Force-Report-Final-2018-08-01-3pdf When we received their report the EC decided the best approach to instituting change was for all committees to take the recommenda-tions to heart within their work Two years later clearly a lot of work remains to be done There have been changes to be sure for example new oversight of award selections proposals for leadership training and new international alliances More substantial work may require that we need to stop all business as usual until we have looked critically at the effects of each activity we are doing What better time than during a pandemic when there is not much ldquobusiness as usualrdquo going on when inequalities have been magnified and when we reassess our priorities in this new reality Of course our community of volunteers is subject to many extra stresses at this time yet I hope to be able to report real progress in the coming months AWM originally came together to demand women have access to the male club of research mathematics Our goal was to be just like them except for our ldquoexternalrdquo characteristics (gender race) We must acknowledge that the math world has a culture and value system that are not essential to doing mathematics and can even act as an impediment for some Both the math we create and the way we create it have a cultural context and should be examined with an eye to equity and ethical implication We should not just adopt the culture of math that we saw we must reimagine it to become a profession that recognizes potential and rewards accom-plishment of all kinds Much more can be said about this I leave it for another time As part of our commitment to the values outlined in AWMrsquos Statement of Solidarity with NAM we are reserving space in our bimonthly newsletter for ar-ticles that share experiences and best practices around dismantling racism in the

AWM was founded in 1971 at the Joint Meetings in Atlantic City

The Newsletter is published bi-monthly Articles letters to the editor and announce-ments are welcome

Opinions expressed in AWM Newsletter articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect opinions of the editors or policies of the Association for Women in Mathematics Authors sign consent to publish forms

Circulation 3500 copy 2020 AWM

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PresidentRuth HaasDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Hawailsquoi at Mānoa2565 McCarthy Mall (Keller Hall 401A)Honolulu Hawaii 96822ruthawm-mathorg

President-Elect Kathryn Leonard

Treasurer Mary Shepherd

Clerk Janet Beery

At-Large Members Linda Chen Kavita RamananCarla Cotright- Michelle Snider Williams Farrah Jackson WardElena Fuchs Suzanne WeekesPamela Harris

Media CoordinatorDenise Rangel Tracy deniserangeltracygmailcom

Meetings CoordinatorAlina Bucur alinamathuscdedu

Newsletter EditorAnne Leggett amcdonalucedu

NEWSLETTER TEAMMargaret Bayer Book ReviewJacqueline Dewar Education ColumnSarah Greenwald Associate Editor and Media Column appalachianawmappstateeduAlice Silverberg Media Column

2 AWM Newsletter Volume 50 Number 5 bull SeptemberndashOctober 2020

PRESIDENTrsquoS REPORT continued from page 1

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mathematics community and articles that support and promote BIPOC wom-en mathematicians and their work We welcome submissions in these two areas further details appear elsewhere in this newsletter Most of the professional mathematics orga-nizations have issued statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement A list with links can be found through this CBMS page httpswwwcbmsweborg202006responses-to-racism Press coverage of mathematiciansrsquo call to boy-cott predictive policing can found here httpswwwnaturecomarticlesd41586-020-01874-9 As always I look forward to hearing your thoughts and working with our community

Ruth HaasJuly 25 2020Mānoa HI

Letters to the Editor The video of Mr George Floyd dying on the street is too difficult to watch yet its impact has been profound Academia needs to reflect on this incident Seven decades ago universities began ramping up the research component of mathematics departments Since then meager handfuls of minorities have obtained doctorates from mathematical sciences and statistics (MSS) departments each year The mathematical aspirations of countless minorities have died in silence No video recorded these deaths When was the last time that you advised a Native American undergraduate or discussed mathematics with a Native American mathematician This glaring lack of contact with this one important minority group is evidence of the harm inflicted by MSS departments on the minority population in general The current unrest that we see on the streets is connected to white privilege I earned a PhD in mathematics This led me out of poverty and granted me privileges I had a safe work environment a regular paycheck health insurance and a retirement account and I have traveled around the world I own a home Few minorities have these privileges There is an implicit social contract between the minority community and MSS departments The tax dollars of minorities support the research and privileges of faculty in MSS departments and in return MSS departments educate minority children That social contract has broken I call on our profession to recognize the professional privilege in which we live to reformulate departmental policies attitudes and programs of study with a view towards producing an equitable educational system for women and minorities and all our citizens How much longer must women and minorities call for change


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AWM DEADLINES

AWM OFFICE

Darla Kremer Executive Directordarlaawm-mathorg

Robin Nelson Administrative Specialistrobinawm-mathorg

Association for Women in MathematicsAttn Robin Nelson201 Charles StreetProvidence RI 02940401-455-4042 awmawm-mathorg

AWM-AMS Noether Lecture October 1 2020AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture October 1 2020AWM Alice T Schafer Prize October 1 2020AWM Dissertation Prize October 1 2020AWM Travel Grants October 1 2020 and February 1 2021Ruth I Michler Memorial Prize October 1 2020AWM Workshop at SIAM November 15 2020AWM Essay Contest February 1 2021AWM Mentoring Travel Grants February 1 2021AWM-Microsoft Research Prize February 1 2021AWM-Sadosky Research Prize February 1 2021

Must we wait for calls to defund our MSS departments On the other hand will MSS departments take the lead in addressing reform

William Yslas VeacutelezEmeritus Professor of MathematicsUniversity of Arizona

Letter to AWM from student chapters Condemn predictive policing and racist uses of data science

This letter was written by student chapters of AWM and was sent to the AWM President President-Elect and Executive Director on July 6 2020 As of that date the letter had been signed by 165 mathematicians 67 of whom are students and 63 of whom are involved with a local AWM chapter We organizers have been in active communication with the AWM leadership but also wanted to share our concerns with the broader AWM community

To the AWM leadership

We are outraged at the AWMrsquos response to the justifiable criticism and anger from the mathematics community with regards to the announcement of Andrea Bertozzi as the winner of the 2021 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecture Although the Noether lecture at JMM was cancelled the statement released by the AWM suggests that the only problem with their decision was ldquothe timingrdquo which not only misses the point but is deeply insulting and dismisses the real concerns at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement In particular it suggests that (1) AWM continues to support predictive policing and (2) the AWM thinks that the recent outrage is temporary and that people will get over it with time The problem with predictive policing is not that it might be temporarily upsetting to people who are grieving but that it perpetuates reinforces and legitimizes a racist system that is actively killing Black people Additionally the AWM has not made it clear that the award associated with the lecture the $500 prize honorary plaque and featured article have also been rescinded The weaponization of mathematics such as predictive policing against Black people is being thoroughly studied in the growing and active field of (algorithmic) fairness in machine learning It is well-established by fairness experts that race- blind algorithms are biased Moritz Hardt a computer scientist and fairness expert at UC Berkeley says that ldquoThere is no such thing as fairness through unawarenessrdquo (httpssimonsberkeleyedunewsalgorithms-discrimination) This means race-blind algorithms are racist and anti-Black Until we completely understand how to mitigate biasesmdashbiases that with 100 certainty exist in the data the analysis of the data and hence the resulting modelsmdashit is extremely dangerous to use these models against people especially Black people Unfortunately experts in fairness do not know how to practically counteract these biases including racism and anti-Blackness It is very likely the case that there can never be a ldquofairrdquo policing algorithm In fact Kristian Lum an expert on fairness and predictive policing said ldquoSometimes the best solution is to abandon the quantitative or technical

LET TERS TO THE EDITOR continued from page 3


approachrdquo (httpspsmagcomsocial-justicejustice-by-the-numbers-meet-the-statistician-trying-to-fix-bias-in-criminal-justice-algorithms) Joy Buolamwini a leading expert in algorithmic fairness computer scientist and Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League writes ldquoBecause algorithms can have real world consequences we must demand fairnessrdquo and ldquoMitigating bias is not just a technical challenge How and when machine learning should be used is a matter of ongoing discussionrdquo (httpsmediumcommit-media-labthe-algorithmic-justice-league-3cc4131c5148) When statistician Kristian Lum and political scientist William Isaac applied Bertozzi and Brantinghamrsquos algorithm to publicly available drug use data (httpsdoiorg101111j1740-9713201600960x) ldquothe algorithm instructed police to almost exclusively target poor minority neighborhoods even though public-health data suggested drug use was spread more evenly across the cityrdquo (httpspsmagcomsocial-justicejustice-by-the-numbers-meet-the-statistician-trying-to-fix-bias-in-criminal-justice-algorithms) In light of these facts Andrea Bertozzirsquos ongoing work in predictive policing and her profiteering from predictive policing are indefensible Predictive policing is extremely dangerous The AWMrsquos silence and unwillingness to condemn predictive policing are even more dangerous If we mathematicians and machine learners with PhDs do not speak out against predictive policing and other dangerous algorithms non-experts of math will incorrectly assume these algorithmic tools are unbiased and weaponize them against people since ldquomath is objectiverdquo The AWM and the mathematics community must condemn both the use and promotion of algorithms in settings like predictive policing To stay silent is to be complicit in the violence against and the murders of Black and Brown people We call on the AWM to explicitly condemn predictive policing and other weaponizations of mathematics and data science that perpetuate reinforce and legitimize racism and in particular anti-Black racism We call on the AWM to make strong and concrete commitments to anti-racism which include actively fighting racism in AWM holding other mathematics institutions accountable and commitments to better support Black women mathematicians and Black mathematicians of minority genders AS AWM CHAPTER LEADERS WE URGE AND DEMAND THAT THE AWM LEADERSHIP DO THE FOLLOWING

1) Publicly condemn predictive policing research and profiting off of predictive policing

2) Explicitly state that all aspects of the Emmy Noether award including the $500 prize honorary plaque and featured article in the AWM Newsletter will not be given to Andrea Bertozzi 3) Commit to boycotting collaboration with police by promoting and signing the Letter to the Notices of the AMS (httpsdocsgooglecomformsde1FAIpQLSfdmQGrgdCBCexTrpne7KXUzpbiI9LeEtd0Am-qRFimpwuv1Aviewform) 4) Actively practice Bystander Intervention at the institutional level in collaboration with organizations such as NAM and the Algorithmic Justice League In particular call out ICERM for holding a predictive policing workshop led by Andrea Bertozzi in collaboration with Providence Police 5) Promote the work of Black women mathematicians and Black mathematicians of minority genders who study fairness and accountability of social algorithms such as Rediet Abebe Timnit Gebru and Joy Buolamwini 6) Acknowledge that predominantly white women spaces perpetuate racism and commit to changing this racist environment In particular the AWM leadership should actively seek to have Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPoC) in leadership positions 7) Encourage and demand that mathematics depart-ments acknowledge that Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) service is disproportionately carried out by Black women mathematicians BIPoC women mathematicians and BIPoC mathematicians of minority genders Demand that this service burden and the resulting psychological toll be recognized when it comes to hiring and tenure decisions

The AWM says it stands in solidarity with our Black colleagues and the Black community This means committing to actively fighting racism and anti-Blackness This includes holding members of the mathematics community as well as other mathematical institutions accountable for their racism and anti-Blackness The AWMrsquos silence is complicity Complicity is oppression Stand up for your Black colleagues and the Black community Stand up for your Black Indigenous and People of Color colleagues Donrsquot just preach anti-racism Do Anti-Racism Black Lives Matter

Petition organizers Elizabeth Collins-Wildman University of Michigan Alana Huszar University of Michigan Sarah Percival Purdue University Farrah Yhee University of Michigan

Column Editors Janet Beery University of Redlands Francesca Bernardi Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kayla M Bicol University of Houston Eva Brayfindley Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Cathy Kessel consultant

This is the eleventh in a series of ldquoPresidentsrsquo Reflectionsrdquo articles by past presidents of the AWM that are intended to help us take stock of where we are and where we should be going and to consider what we want the organization to be at its 50th anniversary As always the AWM Newsletter welcomes your suggestions and comments in letters to the editor Sylvia Wiegand was the thirteenth president of AWM (1997ndash1999) For more about Wiegand see her Wikipedia entry and web page httpwwwmathunleduswiegand1

Musings on Being AWM President

Sylvia Wiegand

My term as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics was and remains a major highlight of my life I have not done anything so earthshaking before or since Reflecting back on AWM women in mathematics and my presidency I am grateful to have served as AWM president Initially the prospect was quite daunting On the other hand I wanted to help other women as I had been helped and that prevailed (My candidacy was unopposed which also helped) Most of the experiences that come to mind were wonderful When Mary Gray Lenore Blum and Alice Schafer started AWM I was impressed and inspired These three ldquobrazen hussiesrdquo were sometimes scowled at and grumbled about but they persevered thus inspiring quieter and more reserved women to be strong confident and successful That said during my time AWM had very little money and not many volunteersmdashsuch a rude awakening for me AWM had about 4500 members during my term some were complimentary most were not full dues-paying members AWM and I were so lucky to have several dedicated ldquoangelsrdquo who wrote grants for the annual and semi-annual workshops for graduate students and new postdocs We were so lucky that devoted frontline workers in the trenches put together meetings and the newslettermdashespecially mainstays Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett However to do anything else at all I needed to write applications myself to agencies to find backing for other

PRESIDENTSrsquo REFLECTIONS activities I also called people to ask for donations to AWM explaining the need to develop a legacy Moreover for each new program we needed new volunteers The small group of faithful volunteers was far too busy and somewhat burned out The staff was minuscule and overtaxed they certainly could not take on more chores Fortunately thanks to later AWM presidents AWM is now on more substantial financial and operational footing As president rather than starting up new events and making radical changes I mostly settled for continuing the same events and working for their success I was and remain fanatical about having reports and pictures to celebrate and remember what we have done To that end I wrote lots of articles about AWM events for the newsletter Thanks everyone who helped memdashand AWMmdashthrough those years Irsquom grateful for the wise women particularly Sue Geller and Carol Wood who listened and advised me about dealing with people When Jean Taylor came on board as president-elect we worked through a lot of things together Chuu-Lian Terng guided me through everything when I was president-elect She even told me to expect that email would take at least three hours a daymdashitrsquos probably more now During my presidency Jim Lewis was chair of the mathematics department at the University of Nebraskandash Lincoln (UNL) where I served on the faculty for most of my career A great supporter of women in mathematics in Nebraska and nationally Jim arranged a course release for me and use of the department staff for correspondence etc Under Jimrsquos leadership and with the goodwill and efforts of many others in the UNL math department especially Judy Walker Wendy Hines and Roger Wiegand the department became a very friendly place for women in the 1990s The department won a national award in 1998 for mentoring women in the PhD program which Judy Walker accepted on behalf of the department from then-President Bill Clinton1 Judy and Jim used the award money to initiate the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Womenmdashit is still going on and is extremely popular Nebraska has had record percentages of women receiving PhDs ever since (eg nine women out of 17 math PhDs granted in 2018) The men agree that making a friendly climate for women has made the math department better for everyone As AWM did not have funds for travel I continue to be thankful to UNL for generously covering most expenses arising from my presidency Often I organized discussions about women in math while traveling for research occasionally I was invited for visits As mathematical scientists we

1 httpswwwmathunledudepartmentawardspresidential_award


have many opportunities to travel to interesting places Become a mathematician and see the world That certainly was true for me For my talks at various venues as AWM president (and later) I developed a kind of ldquodog and pony showrdquo This largely consisted of my asking and answering questions and relating answers other audiences had given The issues we discussed at talks depended upon the audience their backgrounds and interests I reported on some of these in my presidentrsquos columns and in the travel notes that were often appended to my columns For example the question ldquoWould you consider going to a high school math camp for girlsrdquo was a sensitive one but more so was ldquoWould you tell anyone you wentrdquo Even the girls who loved attending Nebraskarsquos first All Girls All Math camp ldquojust couldnrsquotrdquo tell their classmates Perhaps a very close friend could be told Among all the high school groups I talked to in 1997 only students in Anchorage Alaska saw no stigma about attending a math campmdashthe Alaskans said ldquoItrsquos just like with a soccer camprdquo These Alaskans were among the few audiences where someone had ever heard of a famous woman mathematicianmdashHypatia and her gory death2 In later years math camps became more acceptablemdashthe Nebraska camp girls donrsquot keep it a secret anymore Often the ldquoprogramrdquo for the discussions consisted simply of each participant briefly giving their name position and thoughts about women in mathematics Invariably that led


3 Photos and the text of the panelistsrsquo remarks appeared in the JanuaryndashFebruary 1999 AWM newsletter

Announcing the Mary and Alfie Gray Award for Social Justice The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has approved the Mary and Alfie Gray Award for Social Justice to reward the vigorous and imaginative application of the mathematical sciences to advancing the cause of social justice defined as promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity Social justice exists when all people share a common humanity and therefore have a right to equitable treatment support for their human rights and a fair allocation of community resources The award is named after Mary Gray Founder and Past President of AWM who has lived her life fighting for social justice and human rights and for Alfred Gray who was devoted to working with mathematicians from around the world and with students from underrepresented groups within the United States The Grays have always been concerned about securing human rights and equitable treatment in the profession and by governments The award will be made every other year (subject to availability of funds) at the AWM reception at the Joint Mathematics Meetings and comes with a cash prize of $1000 Please help the AWM make this award possible by donating to the Prize Fund through the AWM secure portal httpsebusawm-mathorgebusDefaultaspxTabID=1523

2 More details about the Alaskans are in my ldquotravel notesrdquo see the JanuaryndashFebruary 1998 AWM Newsletter httpswwwdrivehqcomfolderp87550871748783857aspx


to a wonderful exchange of comments and ideas as we had in South Africa Connecticut Michigan Ohio Morocco and other locales during my presidency At a 2014 meeting in Kerala India when his turn came to speak a young man commented that his parents had made sure he got a good education but his talented sister was expected to stay home have a family and care for the parents as is traditional in India Most of the young women present agreed this was a problem but since then I have met many marvelous Indian women who are mathematicians Having an organization for women in mathematics in India has helped a great deal In an international group of women mathematicians there is always something to say about ldquoWhat is good and what is difficult about being a woman in mathematics in your countryrdquo This was the lead-off question at the panel on women in mathematics at the 1998 Berlin International Congress of Mathematicians organized by AWM and Euro-pean Women in Mathematics3 The most startling response to this question occurred much more recently at a panel at the International Congress of Women Mathematicians in 2014 in Korea a woman from Africa said a major difficulty for women in mathematics there was ldquopossible deathrdquo() because some of her countrymen wanted to kill women and girls who tried to study and learn mathematics At this the audience made a collective gasp Hearing of such situations is still a surprise to many of us but they do still occur

continued on page 8


PRESIDENTSrsquo REFLECTIONS continued from page 7

4 For example in 1999 women were about one twentieth of all the professors who were tenured or tenure-track at these institutions see Taylor amp Wiegand ldquoAWM in the 1990srdquo Notices of the AMS httpwwwamsorgnotices199901awmpdf

NSF-AWM Travel Grants for Women Mathematics Travel Grants The objective of the NSF-AWM Travel Grants is to enable women mathematicians to attend conferences in their fields which provides them a valuable opportunity to advance their research activities and their visibility in the research community Having more women attend such meetings also increases the size of the pool from which speakers at subsequent meetings may be drawn and thus addresses the persistent problem of the absence of women speakers at some research conferences The Mathematics Travel Grants provide full or partial support for travel and subsistence for a meeting or conference in the applicantrsquos field of specialization

Selection Procedure All awards will be determined on a competitive basis by a selection panel consisting of distinguished mathematicians appointed by the AWM A maximum of $2300 for domestic travel and of $3500 for foreign travel will be funded For foreign travel US air carriers must be used (exceptions only per federal grants regulations prior AWM approval required)

Eligibility and Applications Please see the website (httpsawm-mathorgawm-grantstravel-grants) for details on eligibility and do not hesitate to contact awmawm-mathorg or 401-455-4042 for guidance Applications from members of underrepresented minorities are especially welcome

Deadlines There are three award periods per year Applications are due February 1 May 30 and October 1

Many of the problems for international women in mathematics are the same as in the US however For exampleeven if women can get PhDs they often have a harder time getting jobs status and good salaries than men A question that often came up during my term was ldquoIs AWM still neededrdquomdashthat is ldquoDo we still need to especially encourage and support women and girls to study math and be mathematical scientistsrdquo People even ask this question today Some are unaware of any problems for women and some even believe that women are getting all the jobs The answer to this question of course was and remains a resound- ing ldquoYesrdquo There are still discouraging messages sent to women at all levels Some younger women lack self-confidence Moreover women are not getting all the jobs only recently has the portion of women professors at the top ten US institutions gone up to about one eighth which is a con- siderable improvement over previous years4

Small gestures can make a big impact on young women Encouraging smart young women to take more math be math majors or try grad school can make a real difference Simply getting young women together to talk also helps The AWM student chapters have been wonderful and are an excellent influence We still need to make concerted efforts towards including and retaining students of color and LGBTQI+ folks The situation of jobs for women in mathematics remains complicated and needs measures that focus on systemic problems AWM can help by advocating for change My focus recently has been the AWM Awards and Scientific Advisory Committees Women are less likely to be nominated for awards in the mathematical sciences Everyone can help with thismdashplease do Please nominate or provide names of worthy women to prize award and fellows committees in the mathematical sciences Fifty cheers for AWMrsquos fifty years AWM has done amazing work on behalf of women and the mathematical sciences We appreciate how other societies and agencies including the AMS MAA SIAM NSA and NSF have supported AWM and have given women in mathematics a boost with their initiatives We now have a mathematics community that is much more welcoming than it used to be but we cannot be complacent The advances made so far may be eroded if we donrsquot continue to encourage women Much more work remains to be done


BOOK REVIEW

Book Review Editor Margaret Bayer University of Kansas Lawrence KS 66045-7523 bayermathkuedu

Reaching for the Moon The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019 ISBN 978-1534440838

Reviewer Leigh McCue-Weil with assistance from Remy Weil George Mason University lmccuewegmuedu

In the time between when I agreed to write this review and the submission deadline Katherine Johnson and John Lewis passed away and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked nationwide protests all against a backdrop of COVID-19 becoming a global pandemic altering Kndash12 and higher education Explaining this to a nine-year-old might otherwise be daunting but Katherine Johnsonrsquos autobiography Reaching for the Moon The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson (for young readers) eloquently and honestly describes decades of segregation and Jim Crow laws in a manner that is accessible to children

The book does not shy away f rom tough topics From the nine-year-oldrsquos point of view the first half of the book the description of Johnsonrsquos chi ldhood re sonated including the struggles her father had with securing work near where the family needed to be for the best educational opportunities for their children and wi th the ove ra rch ing challenges and lack of opportunity for African-Americans My daughter used the phrase ldquoback thenrdquo often when discussing the book which led to segues to the now to George Floyd Breonna Taylor Ahmaud Arbery and so many others whose lives inspired the Black Lives Matter movement She struggled with the idea of segregation the inequity of schooling options between Black and white children the reality that ldquoback thenrdquo she and her best friend would have been forced to go to different schools and struggled equally with how racism and race-

CALL FOR NOMINATIONSThe Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation Prize In January 2016 the Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics established the AWM Dissertation Prize an annual award for up to three outstanding PhD dissertations presented by female mathematical scientists and defended during the 24 months preceding the deliberations for the award The Prizes will be given for those dissertations deemed most outstanding by the award committee The award is intended to be based entirely on the dissertation itself not on other work of the individual To be eligible for the award graduate students must have defended their dissertation within the last two years (October 1 2018 to September 30 2020) They must either be a US citizen or have a school address in the US The Prizes will be presented at the AWM Reception and Awards Presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington DC Anyone can be a nominator whether or not they are AWM members Self-nominations are permitted Nominations of members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged The nomination should include 1) a one to three page letter of nomination highlighting the exceptional mathematical research presented in the dissertation 2) a curriculum vitae of the candidate not to exceed three pages 3) a copy of the dissertation and 4) two letters support-ing the nomination Nomination materials should be submitted online at MathProgramsorg The submission link will be available 45 days prior to the nomination deadline Nominations must be received by October 1 2020 If you have questions phone 401-455-4042 email awmawm-mathorg or visit awm-mathorgawardsawm-dissertation-prize for more information

continued on page 10


based atrocities continue to this day becoming thoroughly engrossed in learning everything she could about the life of George Floyd Thanks to the context of Katherine Johnsonrsquos autobiography these lessons were all taught far more comprehensively and more historically grounded than I would have been capable of independently As a female engineer reading Katherine Johnsonrsquos telling of her life story and that of the women around her was absolutely captivating In a tone that again is elegantly open about the challenges that faced women and African-Americans while not intimidating for children she tackles systemic racism and sexism Johnson paints a vivid picture of the excellent education she received thanks to her parentsrsquo dedication and highly qualified teachers who combatted segregated schools and subpar facilities with outstanding intellect and commitment From her description of the enor-mously qualified and talented workforce in West Computing who were required to have better credentials and performance than their white counterparts to Dorothy Vaughanrsquos leader-ship in the professional development of the women of West Computing to stay ahead of the technology curve with the advent of modern computing systems to Johnsonrsquos pioneering roles in breaking down barriers gaining a seat at

BOOK REVIEW continued from page 9 the table and public acknowledgement of her own work the book is packed with inspiration As a mother explaining social justice advocacy to a tween Johnsonrsquos honest expressions of both hope and fear through the Civil Rights era resonated She describes desire for better opportunities for her daughters coupled with concern for their safety if participating in protests a sentiment that this mother shares albeit from a white-privileged vantage point as she raises a strong-minded passionate civic-engaged daughter in the heart of our nationrsquos capital And lastly as an educator in the midst of the educational innovations that are being required in todayrsquos COVID-19 era Johnsonrsquos insistence that ldquoanyone who doesnrsquot love math hasnrsquot been taught math by someone who felt passionate about itrdquo (p 138) serves as a rallying cry for creating engaging innovative educational strategies to reach and inspire our students regardless of pandemic-necessitated distance For anyone looking for a book to learn more of the story behind Hidden Figures particularly a book to use as a stepping stone to discussing Civil Rights and Womenrsquos Rights with children look no further than Reaching for the Moon The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

CALL FOR NOMINATIONSThe 2022 Noether Lecture

AWM established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences In April 2013 the lecture was renamed the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and since 2015 has been jointly sponsored by AWM and AMS This one-hour expository lecture is presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January Emmy Noether was one of the great mathematicians of her time someone who worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration The mathematicians who have given the Noether lectures in the past are Jessie MacWilliams Olga Taussky Todd Julia Robinson Cathleen Morawetz Mary Ellen Rudin Jane Cronin Scanlon Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat Joan Birman Karen Uhlenbeck Mary Wheeler Bhama Srinivasan Alexandra Bellow Nancy Kopell Linda Keen Lesley Sibner Olrsquoga Ladyzhenskaya Judith Sally Olga Oleinik Linda Rothschild Dusa McDuff Krystyna Kuperberg Margaret Wright Sun-Yung Alice Chang Lenore Blum Jean Taylor Svetlana Katok Lai-Sang Young Ingrid Daubechies Karen Vogtmann Audrey Terras Fan Chung Graham Carolyn Gordon Susan Montgomery Barbara Keyfitz Raman Parimala Georgia Benkart Wen-Ching Winnie Li Karen E Smith Lisa Jeffrey Jill Pipher Bryna Kra and Birgit Speh Anyone can be a nominator whether or not they are AWM members Self-nominations are permitted in which case there must be an additional letter of support Nominations of members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged The letter of nomination should include a one-page outline of the nomineersquos contribution to mathematics giving four of hertheir most important papers and other relevant information Nominations are to be submitted as ONE PDF file via MathProgramsOrg The submission link will be available 45 days prior to the deadline Nominations must be submitted by October 1 2020 and will be held active for three years If you have questions phone 401-455-4042 email awmawm-mathorg or see the website httpsawm-mathorgawardsnoether-lectures


AWM Workshop at the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting

Application deadline for graduate students November 15 2020

For many years the Association for Women in Mathematics has held a series of workshops for women graduate students and recent PhDs in conjunction with major mathematics meetings Since 2016 these workshop talks have been supported by the AWM ADVANCE grant The AWM Workshops serve as follow-up workshops to Research Collaboration Conferences for Women featuring both junior and senior women speakers from one of the Research Networks supported by the ADVANCE grant An AWM Workshop is scheduled to be held in conjunction with the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane Washington July 19ndash23 2021

FORMAT The workshop will consist of two research minisymposia focused on Control and Optimization in Differential Equations organized by Lorena Bociu and Mary Ann Horn a Poster Session and an informational minisymposium directed at starting a career Selected junior and senior women from the Research Collaboration Conference for Women (RCCW) WIC will be invited to give 20-minutes talks in the two research minisymposia The speakers will be supported by the National Science Foundation AWM ADVANCE grant Career Advancement for Women Through Research-Focused Networks The Poster Session will be open to all areas of research graduate students working in areas related to control and optimization in differential equations are especially encouraged to apply The graduate students will be selected through an application process to present posters at the Workshop Poster Session held in conjunction with the SIAM Poster Session AWM will offer partial support for travel and hotel accommodations for the selected graduate students pending funding The workshop will include a luncheon and mentoring session where workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet with other women mathematicians at all stages of their careers and a career panel which will be open to the public In particular graduate students working in areas related to control and optimization in differential equations will have the opportunity to connect with the Women in Control (WIC) Research Network All mathematicians (female and male) are invited to attend the talks career panel and poster presentations Departments are urged to help graduate students and junior faculty who are not selected for the workshop to obtain institutional support to attend the presentations

MENTORS We also seek volunteers to act as mentors for workshop participants in particular the graduate students If you are interested in volunteering please contact the AWM office at awmawm-mathorg by May 15 2021

ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for selection and funding graduate students must have made substantial progress towards their theses Women with grants or other sources of support are welcome to apply All non-US citizens must have a current US address Applications from members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged

All applications should include bull a title of the proposed poster bull an abstract (75 words or less) of the proposed poster bull a curriculum vitae bull a letter of recommendation from the thesis advisor

Applications must be completed electronically by November 15 2020 See httpsawm-mathorgmeetingsawm-siam


EDUCATION COLUMN

Education Column Editor Jackie Dewar Loyola Marymount University jdewarlmuedu

Improving Math EducationPat Kenschaft Professor Emerita of Mathematics Montclair State University

Fifteen years after retiring it is time for me to conclude my giving advice to others about how to teach mathematics But first I will summarize what I think are some of the most profound suggestions Mathematics should be fun I am amazed at how much pleasure it has brought me all my life even now in my old age when I do KenKen and Sudoko puzzles every night before going to sleep The lack of emphasis on making math fun has always worried me and still does We all want to see relationships and true mathematics is a study of patterns not algorithms We may need to teach some algorithms so our students do well on standardized exams but we need not neglect the patterns We should

explain them whenever presenting a new topic Just as important it is crucial to ask for other explanations whenever one has been offered ldquoCan someone do it another wayrdquo ldquoIs there another explanationrdquo I usually (often) got students to tell me two ways to solve one problem One especially exciting day we had four approaches to solving a single problem My current major activity is gardening and this resulted in my asking myself what is common between gardening and mathematics The answer came to me ldquoTo enjoy either you must be able to accept much failurerdquo When I share this wisdom most people respond that that is true of many endeavors Yes but in mathematics and gardening failure is especially obvious I think we emphasize this truth too little in math teaching My students would always look startled the first time in a class one of them pointed out a mistake I had made and I responded with a cheery ldquoThatrsquos right Thank you so muchrdquo I was genuinely grateful that a false statement of mine had not permanently damaged my students but I was also happy to show that we all make mistakes and it is important to acknowledge that

CALL FOR NOMINATIONSThe 2021 Kovalevsky Lecture AWM and SIAM established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics This lecture is given annually at the SIAM Annual Meeting Sonia Kovalevsky whose too-brief life spanned the second half of the nineteenth century did path-breaking work in the then-emerging field of partial differential equations She struggled against barriers to higher education for women both in Russia and in Western Europe In her lifetime she won the Prix Bordin for her solution of a problem in mechanics and her name is memorialized in the Cauchy-Kovalevsky theorem which establishes existence in the analytic category for general nonlinear partial differential equations and develops the fundamental concept of characteristic surfaces The mathematicians who have given the prize lecture in the past are Linda R Petzold Joyce R McLaughlin Ingrid Daubechies Irene Fonseca Lai-Sang Young Dianne P OrsquoLeary Andrea Bertozzi Suzanne Lenhart Susanne Brenner Barbara Keyfitz Margaret Cheney Irene M Gamba Linda JS Allen Liliana Borcea Eacuteva Tardos Catherine Sulem and Lise Fauci The lectureship may be awarded to anyone in the scientific or engineering community whose work highlights the achievements of women in applied or computational mathematics Anyone can be a nominator whether or not they are AWM members Self-nominations are permitted in which case there must be an additional letter of support Nominations of members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged The nomination must be accompanied by a written justification and a citation of about 100 words that may be read when introducing the speaker Nominations are to be submitted as ONE PDF file via MathProgramsOrg The submission link will be available 45 days prior to the deadline Nominations must be received by October 1 2020 and will be kept active for two years The awardee will be chosen by a selection committee consisting of two members of AWM and two members of SIAM Please consult the award web pages wwwsiamorgprizessponsoredkovalevskyphp and awm-mathorgawardskovalevsky-lectures for more details


Of course my mathematical confidence was far higher than that of most of my students That surely helped What can we do to bolster the confidence of our students Praise them whenever possible of course but also help them realize that mistakes are inevitable and not to be unduly ashamed of They would make fewer if elementary mathematics were taught better Ever since my first series of interviews with Black mathematicians I have been campaigning to improve the math preparation of Kndash3 teachers My experience helping them revealed that they are plenty smart enough and plenty eager to learn we donrsquot need to remove teachers just educate them Many are very angry when they realize how they have been deprived One went stamping around the room saying ldquoWhy wasnrsquot I taught this [area of a rectangle] before Irsquove been teaching for thirty years and I could have been a MUCH better teacher if someone had taught me this thirty years agordquo I also vividly remember entering one third grade classroom to hear the teacher say in front of her 31 students ldquoCould we put aside what you and I planned for today and you just answer the questions of the children I canrsquot answerrdquo I did no meta-thinking for the next hour and she sat on the edge of her chair the only other white person in the room At the end she said ldquoWhat do you call this kind of mathematics Dr Kenschaftrdquo ldquoOh my This is the beginning of calculus which I teach at Montclair Staterdquo This was in the poorest section of Newark then the poorest city in the country Elementary school teachers need far more math preparation than they are currently given the children are eager When I was young some psychologists said that people go into mathematics because they want to be right some of the time and it is only in mathematics where everyone agrees about what is right I immediately pled guilty I already had enough experience in political action to know that people rarely agree completely about what is right In those days with an Iron Curtain what I knew about the Soviet Union came mostly via the Notices Mathematicians were the only Americans apparently who traveled across the Iron Curtain The first was told he would not be able to talk to anyone there but when he arrived in his hotel there were numerous invitations to visit in Russian mathematiciansrsquo homes Afterward other mathematicians visited Russia expecting and getting similar warm welcomes The unity among those of us who love math is remarkable and good We should do anything we can to promote the JOY of mathematics and try to teach that mistakes are inevitable to be avoided when possible but not to be unduly mourned

Education Column Editorrsquos Note

In January 2006 after the previous column editor wanted to give up responsibility for the Column the AWM Education Committee was asked to help find a replacement As a stop-gap measure a few people volunteered to write a single article and others were recruited Pat Kenschaft was one of the first to volunteer writing her first column for the SeptemberndashOctober 2006 issue By mid-2007 a team of writers came together and a regular rotation began with Kenschaft committing to the SeptemberndashOctober slot each year This is her fifteenth and last column as a regular contributor She has written about many aspects of teaching and learning mathematics including standardized testing homework assignments the mathematical education of elementary teachers charter schools and the joy that can and should be found in mathematics We are very grateful to Pat for sharing her many insights and her joy of mathematics


MEDIA COLUMN

In addition to longer reviews for the Media Column we invite you to watch for and submit short snippets of instances of women in mathematics in the media (WIMM Watch) Please submit to the Media Column Editors Sarah J Greenwald Appalachian State University appalachianawmappstateedu and Alice Silverberg University of California Irvine asilverbmathuciedu

Review of the Documentary Secrets of the Surface The Mathematical Vision of Maryam MirzakhaniRamin Takloo-Bighash University of Illinois at Chicago

When Alice Silverberg and Sarah Greenwald asked me to review Secrets of the Surface The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani a movie I had seen once before and had enjoyed tremendously I knew that the task of writing the review would not be just writing a review of a movie about some superstarmdashMaryam was not just another famous mathematician and the movie is not just the story of her mathematical ideas The movie definitely tries and does a very good job of explaining Maryamrsquos mathematical ideas but more importantly it paints a portrait of Maryam the person and as someone who knew Maryam for a long time I felt that the film was very successful at this rather intricate task The film before the credits opens with a group of Iranian school girls from a high school for gifted students enthusiastically discussing a problem on the board and I remember Maryam being one of these students back in 1992mdashand the scene ends with one of the girls saying ldquoThere is a very good feeling behind solving the problems and I feel Maryam Mirzakhani could show this passion to everyonerdquo And thatrsquos the sort of thing Maryam would have said too The movie then starts in earnest showing photos from Maryamrsquos childhood in Tehran The story then progresses through Maryamrsquos school years her friendship with Roya

Beheshti her involvement with math Olympiads her paper joint with Professor Ebad Mahmoodian while still in high school her undergraduate years at Sharif University a tragic bus accident that severely injured her and took the lives of seven of her friends and classmates her move to Harvard for graduate school meeting Jan Vondrak her first academic position at Princeton meeting Alex Eskin at Princeton and her work on the Magic Wand Theorem moving to Stanford fame motherhood Fields Medal cancer and her untimely death The DVD contains several extra features which are worth watching

bull Space of all triangles up to similarity by Grant Sandersonbull Negative curvaturebull Pairs of pantsbull Pathological foliationsbull Math in Iranian architecture bull History of math in Iran

Maryamrsquos story is told by her husband Jan Vondrak her friends (most notably Roya Beheshti Kia Dalili and Kasra Rafi) her professors back in Iran her advisor at Harvard Curtis McMullen her students and mentees and her collaborators There are also several animation segments narrated by Erica Klarreich throughout the movie that very nicely explain Maryamrsquos contributions to mathematics Fortunately the movie is not all mathematics By the end of the movie through the intimate interviews with Maryamrsquos friends and colleagues one gets a sense of what a genuinely good person Maryam was that she was a good friend that she was funny and goofy that she was a good mother that she was full of life full of energy that she was kind the type of person about whom towards the end of the movie Anton Zorich says ldquoI wish there were more mathe-maticians more people like thisrdquo I met Maryam briefly in 1992 as a freshman in college through an introduction by Professor Ebad Mahmoodian At the time Maryam was in 10th grade but she and her friend Roya Beheshti already had a reputation of being very smart Tehran is a large city but somehow everyone knows everyone and I kept hearing stories about this or that problem that Maryam and Roya had solved Not surprisingly Maryam and Roya joined the math Olympiad team in 11th grade and my friends and I as former math Olympiad team members became their coaches Much of what is shown in the movie with rare exceptions is the story of a generation of Iranian mathe-maticians math Olympiad Sharif coaching the math Olympiad team college math competitions grad school



CALL FOR NOMINATIONSThe 2022 AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis

The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics established the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis First presented in 2014 the prize will be awarded every other year The purpose of the award is to highlight exceptional research in analysis by women early in their careers Candidates should be women based at US institutions who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD or having not yet received tenure at the nomination deadline The AWM-Sadosky Research Prize serves to highlight to the community outstanding contributions by women in the field and to advance the careers of the prize recipients The award is named for Cora Sadosky a former president of AWM and made possible by generous contributions from Corarsquos husband Daniel J Goldstein daughter Cora Sol Goldstein and friends Judy and Paul S Green and Concepcioacuten Ballester Anyone can be a nominator whether or not they are AWM members Self-nominations are permitted Nomina- tions of members of underrepresented minorities are especially welcome The nomination should include 1) a one to three page letter of nomination highlighting the exceptional contributions of the candidate 2) a curriculum vitae of the candi-date not to exceed three pages and 3) three letters supporting the nomination (submitted independently) Nomination materials should be submitted online at MathProgramsorg The submission link will be available 45 days prior to the nomination deadline Review of candidates will begin in mid-February For full consideration nominations should be submitted by February 1 2021 If you have any questions phone 401-455-4042 email awmawm-mathorg or see httpsawm-mathorgawardsawm-sadosky-research-prize

in the US or Canada and finding jobs somewhere in the West Maryam was the most successful of her generation but she was not by any means an isolated casemdashand this is something the movie does a very good job at capturing The movie shows that there is an actual culture of mathematics in Iran students are excited about mathematics and young people of all genders and all socioeconomic backgrounds study it This culture did not exist half a century ago and many of the people who are interviewed for the movie people like Siavash Shahshahani Yahya Tabesh Omid Karamzadeh Ebad Mahmoodian Ali Rejali and some others who are not featured in the movie are responsible for creating it An important point that is highlighted in the movie is that according to Roya Beheshti professor of mathematics at WUSTL and Maryamrsquos best friend until her death while they were growing up in Iran there was never any negative perception about women in mathematics or science and that she and Maryam never got any impression that math was an unfeminine profession This is further emphasized by Cumrun Vafa (of Harvard) who says that the idea that in Iran women are on par with men in terms of abilities is not a new concept Furthermore Yahya Tabesh (of Sharif University in Tehran) states that more than 50 of all college students in Iran and more than 40 of all students at Sharif University an elite school of science and engineer-

ing in Tehran are women Now compare this with the following story Six weeks into her first grade my daughter who is now 13 told me she was not good at math I asked her why She said ldquoBecause Irsquom a girlrdquo ldquoWhat does that meanrdquo I asked her She said ldquoGirls are not good at mathrdquo I asked where she had heard that She said ldquothatrsquos what everybody saysrdquo At the time I explained to her that that was not true and told her about Maryam and Roya and the other brilliant women mathematicians I knew Watching the movie one sees that Maryam was not the only woman in her cohort who was doing good work throughout the movie one sees high school girls arguing over a math problem girls winning math Olympiad medals women being present in college math classes at Sharif arguably the best math department in Iran etc It is important that this movie is shown to school girls in this country so that they see that there is at least one large country somewhere in the world where people donrsquot think that girls are bad at math In the movie Hossein Masoumi Hamedani mentions in passing that Iranian women are not a privileged group so they have had to work hard to overcome the systemic oppression imposed upon them It is true that Maryam was perhaps subjected to less oppression because of the particular family she grew up in and the fact that her talent was discovered early on but it might have been good if the


movie had explored the lives of Iranian women further For example it might have been appropriate to mention that even though children with Iranian fathers automatically receive Iranian citizenship until October of 2019 her daughter Anahita was not considered an Iranian citizen (Finally in October of 2019 a law was passed in Iran to allow Iranian mothers married to non-Iranians to pass on citizenship to their children mdashit is believed that the law was enacted specifically to address Anahitarsquos case) The Iranian society is far from utopia when it comes to equality of rights for women and there are some places in the movie where this lack of equality is tacitly alluded to eg Maryam wanting to play soccer with the boys but Irsquom afraid that for the unini- tiated these hints might be too subtle Given that the DVD has an option for Persian captions there is a chance that the director might have wanted the movie to be suitable for viewing in Iran and for it to pass through the Iranian regimersquos censorship machine and that might be the reason the movie stays away from political and social issues The movie is extremely well-made I am so glad that George Csicsery actually traveled to Iran to conduct the interviews The interviewees all seemed at ease and it felt that they trusted the director I donrsquot know why Maryamrsquos parents and brothers were not interviewed but it would have been nice if they were included The mathematical explanations by Alex Eskin Erica Klarreich and Curt McMullen and the animations were very nice and even though they were directed at the general public they still felt accurate The

MEDIA COLUMN continued from page 15 editing was for the most part very good only at a couple of points for example the transition from the bus accident to applying to grad school the transition between topics was rather hurried The background music was the sort of instrumental Iranian music that Maryam would have enjoyed Of the extra features the bit about history is woefully incomplete It feels like this segment was the parts of the interview with Hossein Masoumi Hamedani that were not used in the body of the movie Including this segment neither does justice to the history of math in Iran nor to Professor Masoumi Hamedani as a distinguished scholar I was pleased to see that the movie had Persian captions but at several points especially during mathematical explanations the captions could have used some editing I very highly recommend this movie to anyone who has an interest even tangential in mathematics and science Last semester we had a viewing of the movie at UIC which was very well-received I think this movie should be shown to high school and college students everywhere for several reasons First it shatters the stereotypes of womenrsquos weakness in math Second it is the perfect antidote to the anti-immigrant and xenophobic sentiments spewed by the White House not only because Maryam was an immigrant but also because many of the American scientists who are interviewed in the movie are immigrants (Roya Beheshti Alex Eskin Peter Sarnak Cumrun Vafa Jan Vondrak etc) Finally it reminds people that it is wrong to equate a nation like Iran with its diverse populations and complex history and culture with its government much the same way that it is wrong to equate a country like the US with its current administration

NSF-AWM Mentoring Travel Grants for Women

Mathematics Mentoring Grants The objective of the NSF-AWM Mathematics Mentoring Travel Grants is to help junior women to develop long-term working and mentoring relationships with senior mathematicians This relation-ship should help the junior mathematicians to establish their research programs and eventually receive tenure Each grant funds travel accommodations and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month The applicantrsquos and mentorrsquos research must be in a field which is supported by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation Selection Procedure All awards will be determined on a competitive basis by a selection panel consisting of distinguished mathematicians appointed by the AWM A maximum of $5000 per award will be funded Eligibility and Applications Please see the website (httpsawm-mathorgawardsawm-grantstravel-grants) for details on eligibility and do not hesitate to contact us at awmawm-mathorg or 401-455-4042 for guidance Applications from members of underrepresented minorities are especially welcome Deadline There is one award period per year Applications are due February 1



AWM at the 2020 SIAM CAIMS Annual MeetingLorena Bociu (North Carolina State University) Laura Ellwein Fix (Virginia Commonwealth University) Malena Espantildeol (Arizona State University) Selenne Bantildeuelos (California State University Channel Island) Hala Nelson (James Madison University) Suzanne Sindi (University of California Merced) and Darla Kremer (Executive Director Association for Women in Mathematics)

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathe-matics Society (CAIMS) hosted the 2020 Joint SIAMCAIMS Annual Meeting virtually beginning on July 6 2020 and ending on July 17 2020 Originally scheduled to take place in Toronto Ontario Canada the in-person meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 global pandemic The AWM-SIAM Committee [Lorena Bociu (North Carolina State University) Laura Ellwein Fix (Virginia Commonwealth University) Malena Espantildeol (Arizona State University) Selenne Bantildeuelos (California State University Channel Island) Hala Nelson (James Madison University) and Suzanne Sindi (University of California Merced)] quickly adapted to this new format and hosted a highly successful virtual version of the usual AWM-SIAM workshop It included an AWM research mini-symposium and an AWM poster session AWM also had a presence in the virtual exhibit hall thanks to Robin Nelson and Darla Kremer Malena began the session with some background information about the WIMM Network

The AWM Workshop The AWM Workshop features a session of invited speakers supported by the AWM ADVANCE grant Career Advancement for Women Through Research -Focused Networks (NSF-HRD 1500481) which purposefully builds from previously held Research Collaboration Conference Workshops This yearrsquos AWM Workshop was organized by Malena Espantildeol and Hala Nelson it focused on the Mathematics of Materials and included two sections of research talks on July 8 and July 9 On July 10 eleven graduate students and recent PhDs presented their work in the SIAM conference poster session One of the primary objectives of the AWM ADVANCE grant is to provide opportunities for meaningful interaction between the workshop participants as well as for greater exposure of their work in posters and talks While the nature of this interaction was different this year the invited prize and minitutorial talks will be available for viewing on the SIAM Youtube Channel (httpswwwyoutubecomuserSIAMConnects) To find out how to get involved with AWM research groups or to volunteer to be a graduate student mentor see the end of this article The following women from the Research Collabora- tion Conference for Women (RCCW) Mathematics of Materials were invited to give 20-minutes talks in the two research sessions

bull Petronela Radu University of NebraskandashLincoln Decompositions and Properties for Nonlocal Operators

Cynthia Flores discussing how the WIMM Network has influenced her career

Svetlana Baranova presenting her poster


bull Cynthia Flores California State University Channel Island On Theoretical Aspects of Nonlocal Helmholtz Decomposition

of a Vector Fieldbull Yekaterina Epshteyn University of Utah Grain Growth in Polycrystalline Materialsbull M Carme Calderer University of Minnesota 3-Dimensional Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals Subject to AC Fieldsbull Malena I Espantildeol Arizona State University Modeling of 2D Materialsbull Eleni Panagiotou University of Tennessee Chattanooga Topological Methods in Polymersbull Ling Xu North Carolina AampT State University Studying the Material Transport in the Viscous Vortical Flowbull Silvia Jimeacutenez Bolantildeos Colgate University Relative Bending Energy for Weakly Restrained Shells

While the SIAMCAIMS meeting continued through to July 17 the AWM workshop concluded on Friday afternoon with eleven short presentations during a virtual minisymposteria The AWM Graduate Poster Session is a judged event where graduate students and recent PhDs have the opportunity to present their work In coordination with the NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes AWM is able

to offer an invitation to participate in a week-long workshop at one of the institutes as a prize for the best poster a prize that is intended to help anchor the recipient in her field by introducing her to new colleagues and collaborators The following participants were each given approximately ten minutes to present their posters and answer questions about their work

bull Svetlana Baranova University of Minnesota High-order Combined Asymptotic Modeling of Conducting

Composite Materials with Thin Coatings and Filmsbull Kai Bartlette Colorado School of Mines Quantification of Hepatic Insulin Sensitivity in Obese

Adolescent Girlsbull Amanda Lee Colunga North Carolina State University Cardiovascular Function in Heart Transplant Patientsbull Rayanne A Luke University of Delaware Parameter Estimation for Mixed-Mechanism Tear Film Thinningbull Kathryn Grace Link University of Utah A Mathematical Model of Platelet Accumulation in an Extravascular Injury with Force-Mediated Bond Formation and Breakingbull China Mauck University of Utah Manipulating Particles in a Fluid Using Standing Acoustic Waves

2020 SIAMCAIMS ANNUAL MEETING from page 17


Anna Nelson discussing her poster

bull Emily E Meyer University of California Davis Dynamics of Adrenergic Signaling in Cardiac

Myocytes and Implications for Beta-Blocker Treatment

bull Anna Nelson University of Utah Modeling Fibrin Gel Formation with Fibrinogen

Interactionsbull Tracey G Oellerich George Mason University Adaptability Conditions in Biological Networksbull Xiaoyao Peng Carnegie Mellon University A 3D Phase Field Dislocation Dynamics Model

for Bi-Crystal Interface in Body-Centered Cubic Metals

The poster session was organized by Lorena Bociu Laura Ellwein Fix and Malena Espantildeol Poster presentations were judged by the SIAM Meetings Committee

Get Involved AWM is a network of mathematicians who support women in the mathematical sciences and you should be part of this family To learn more about how to get involved with research groups check out the AWM ADVANCE website (awmadvanceorg) Donrsquot see your research field

Consider starting a network Do you attend SIAM and are you interested in being a graduate student mentor or poster judge Contact the AWM SIAM Committee chair Suzanne Sindi at ssindiucmercededu Social change doesnrsquot just happen and neither do the programs

CALL FOR NOMINATIONSAlice T Schafer Mathematics Prize

The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics calls for nominations for the Alice T Schafer Mathematics Prize to be awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics All members of the mathematical community are invited to submit nominations for the Prize The nominees may be at any level in their undergraduate careers but must be undergraduates as of October 1 2020 They must either be a US citizen or have a school address in the US The Prize will be awarded at the AWM Reception and Awards Presentation at the January 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington DC Anyone can be a nominator whether or not they are AWM members Self-nominations are permitted in which case there must be at least one additional letter of support Nominations of members of underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged The letter of nomination should include but is not limited to an evaluation of the nominee on the following criteria quality of performance in advanced mathematics courses and special programs demonstration of real interest in mathematics ability for inde pendent work in mathematics and performance in mathematical competitions at the local or national level if any With the letter of nomination please include a copy of transcripts and indicate undergraduate level Any additional supporting materials (eg reports from summer work using math copies of talks recommendation letters from professors colleagues etc) should be enclosed with the nomination All nomination material is to be submitted as ONE PDF file via MathProgramsOrg with a copy of transcripts included at the end of the file The submission link will be available 45 days prior to the deadline Nominations must be received by October 1 2020 If you have questions phone 401-455-4042 email awmawm-mathorg or visit httpsawm-mathorgawardsschafer-prize-for-undergraduates


Announcements

2020 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

AMS April 2020

Darryl Yong professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College where he also serves as the program director for the Mathematics Clinic has been named the recipient of the 2020 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics An accomplished mathematician who has written six books and several research papers that have appeared in top applied math and physics journals Dr Yong is also a prominent researcher in math education with a scholarly focus on active and inquiry-based learning inclusive pedagogy and training of high school math teachers In 2007 Yong started a nonprofit professional develop-ment organization for math teachers called Math for America Los Angeles (MfA LA) This program has supported over 200 high school math and computer science teachers with multiyear fellowships for salary supplements in addition to providing professional development opportunities and a supportive community He is the primary author of four NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Grants that have raised over $12 million for

MfA LA Yong spent a sabbatical year teaching high school mathematics in the Los Angeles Unified School District which he wrote about in a 2012 Notices article entitled ldquoAdventures in Teaching A Professor Goes to High School to Learn about Teaching Mathrdquo He has also worked with the Teacher Leadership Program at the IASPark City Mathematics Institute since 2007 and has co-taught a math course for elementary and secondary math teachers that led to a book series published by the AMS containing teacher development materials using a problem-based approach At the college level Yong has become an expert on inquiry-based learning methods and participated in a four- year controlled study of flipped classroom instruction supported by the NSF which led to several research articles in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals Yong is regarded by his colleagues at Harvey Mudd and the other Claremont Colleges as a gifted teacher who will continue to have a profound influence on how students and teachers perceive mathematics In particular he was the founding director of the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning and served as the associate dean for diversity at Harvey Mudd from 2011 to 2016 For his many sustainable and replicable contributions to mathematics and mathematics education at both the precollege and college levels the AMS Committee on Edu-cation is delighted to award Darryl Yong the 2020 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

CALL FOR PAPERSAWM Anti-Racism Initiative As a way of upholding the values outlined in AWMrsquos Statement of Solidarity with NAM following George Floydrsquos death we are reserving space in our bimonthly newsletter for articles that share experiences and best practices around dismantling racism in the mathematics community and articles that support and promote BIPOC women mathema-ticians and their work We welcome submissions in these two areas including

bull Profiles of BIPOC women mathematicians and their scientific and programmatic accomplishments bull Book reviews for books about antiracism or books written by BIPOC women mathematicians bull Descriptions of effective processes or actions you or your institution have taken toward antiracism in the mathematical communitybull Successes or charges to action directly related to reimagining AWM as an anti-racist organization

Submissions from AWM committees student chapters past speakers and prize winners are encouraged Please follow the submission guidelines available by going to httpsawm-mathorgpublicationsnewsletter scrolling down the page and clicking on the plus sign For items that would be appropriate for one of our columns sending a query or abstract to the column editor would be appreciated Although the editorial deadlines are the 24th of odd-numbered months more lead time to allow for consultation between editors and authors can be very helpful

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13th Annual Mentoring Conference

UNM Mentoring Institute July 2020

The Mentoring Institute at UNM is pleased to announce its 13th Annual Mentoring Conference High-Quality Connections Developmental Networks Science amp Practice We invite faculty staff and students of higher education researchers Kndash12 educators community leaders administrators non-profit partners government agencies and other professionals to participate in this five-day virtual event which will be held from Monday October 19th 2020 through Friday October 23rd 2020 via a virtual conference based in Albuquerque New Mexico Together we will develop dynamic conversations and networking opportunities through hands-on workshops individualpanel presentations and plenary sessions We aim to foster engagement among scholars and professionals in the fields of mentoring coaching and leadership The registration deadline is October 9 2020 See httpsmentorunmeduconference for further info

2020 SIAM Fellows

SIAM March 2020

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the 2020 Class of SIAM Fellows These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community Through their contributions SIAM

Fellows help advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science In addition to raising the visibility of applied mathe-matics and computational science the SIAM Fellows Pro- gram helps makes SIAM members more competitive for awards and honors as well as leadership positions in the broader society SIAM congratulated 28 esteemed members of its community Here AWM lists the women who received them along with their citations from SIAM and adds its congratulations Alicia Dickenstein Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET is being recognized for contributions to alge- braic geometry and its applications within geometric modeling and in the study of biochemical reaction networks Laura Grigori INRIA is being recognized for contri-butions to numerical linear algebra including communic-ation-avoiding algorithms Kristin E Lauter Microsoft Research is being recognized for the development of practical cryptography and for leadership in the mathematical community Kavita Ramanan Brown University is being recognized for contributions to constrained and reflected processes and stochastic networks Ruth J Williams University of California San Diego is being recognized for contributions to the study of stochastic processes and their applications Barbara Wohlmuth Technische Universitaumlt Muumlnchen is being recognized for sustained seminal contributions to the field of numerical mathematics and for exemplary leadership and service to the computational science community


To increase awareness of womenrsquos ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences the Association for Women in Mathematics holds an annual essay contest for biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic industrial and government careers AWM is pleased to announce that the 2021 contest is sponsored

by Math for America wwwmathforamericaorg Essays will be based primarily on an interview with a woman currently working in a mathematical career The AWM Essay Contest is open to students in the following categories grades 6ndash8 grades 9ndash12 and undergraduate At least one winning entry will be chosen from each category Winners will receive a prize and their essays will be published online at the AWM website Additionally the essay winning the grand prize will be published in the AWM Newsletter For more information visit httpsawm-mathorgawardsstudent-essay-contest The deadline for electronic receipt of entries is February 1 2021 To volunteer to be interviewed please visit the website httpsawm-mathorgawardsstudent-essay-contest and sign up using the link at the bottom of the page


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inequity These considerations must be a priority in our analyses of work There will be no 2021 Noether Lecture and no one listed as the lecturer In place of the lecture the AWM is planning an event designed to educate the community about issues of racial bias andor ethics in research and the role of bias in algorithms and other analytical tools The task force for developing this event includes some members of AWM who were most vocal about our missteps including authors of a letter from some AWM student chapter members request-ing stronger action from the AWM [see pp 4ndash5 for the letter] The members of the task force are not all women of color While we wish to center BIPOC in our event we cannot place this additional burden entirely with them We cannot change the past but we can and should take ownership of our actions that (even unintentionally) perpetuated bias or caused pain and con-fusion For us as mathematicians it means recognizing that even our most theoreti-cal work can be used for a variety of purposes and we must acknowledge our part of the capitalistmilitarypatriarchalsystemically racist world in which we work We must teach our students and remind our colleagues that there are moral and ethical implications embedded in mathematics that it is our responsibility to understand themmdashand alter what is not right The AWM must take ownership too At its bi-monthly meeting in July the Executive Committee continued its discussion of what it means and what it will take to make the AWM an actively anti-racist organization This discussion has been ongoing for at least two years In 2018 past president Ami Radunskaya charged a task force to consider how the AWM could better promote inclusivity in our organization and beyond A copy of the report is here httpsawm-mathorgwp-contentuploads202007Diversity-and-Inclusion-Task-Force-Report-Final-2018-08-01-3pdf When we received their report the EC decided the best approach to instituting change was for all committees to take the recommenda-tions to heart within their work Two years later clearly a lot of work remains to be done There have been changes to be sure for example new oversight of award selections proposals for leadership training and new international alliances More substantial work may require that we need to stop all business as usual until we have looked critically at the effects of each activity we are doing What better time than during a pandemic when there is not much ldquobusiness as usualrdquo going on when inequalities have been magnified and when we reassess our priorities in this new reality Of course our community of volunteers is subject to many extra stresses at this time yet I hope to be able to report real progress in the coming months AWM originally came together to demand women have access to the male club of research mathematics Our goal was to be just like them except for our ldquoexternalrdquo characteristics (gender race) We must acknowledge that the math world has a culture and value system that are not essential to doing mathematics and can even act as an impediment for some Both the math we create and the way we create it have a cultural context and should be examined with an eye to equity and ethical implication We should not just adopt the culture of math that we saw we must reimagine it to become a profession that recognizes potential and rewards accom-plishment of all kinds Much more can be said about this I leave it for another time As part of our commitment to the values outlined in AWMrsquos Statement of Solidarity with NAM we are reserving space in our bimonthly newsletter for ar-ticles that share experiences and best practices around dismantling racism in the

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PresidentRuth HaasDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Hawailsquoi at Mānoa2565 McCarthy Mall (Keller Hall 401A)Honolulu Hawaii 96822ruthawm-mathorg

President-Elect Kathryn Leonard

Treasurer Mary Shepherd

Clerk Janet Beery

At-Large Members Linda Chen Kavita RamananCarla Cotright- Michelle Snider Williams Farrah Jackson WardElena Fuchs Suzanne WeekesPamela Harris

Media CoordinatorDenise Rangel Tracy deniserangeltracygmailcom

Meetings CoordinatorAlina Bucur alinamathuscdedu

Newsletter EditorAnne Leggett amcdonalucedu

NEWSLETTER TEAMMargaret Bayer Book ReviewJacqueline Dewar Education ColumnSarah Greenwald Associate Editor and Media Column appalachianawmappstateeduAlice Silverberg Media Column


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